Jillian Mcdonald Loves Billy Bob in Vancouver

by mtippett | December 21, 2006 at 10:20 am

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Last night The Upgrade had a holiday party which featured the work of Jillian Mcdonald. McDonald's recent piece entitled Me and Billy Bob features excepts from Billy Bob films where but substitute her for his love interest. McDonald admitted that in the process of making virtual love scenes with Billy Bob that she actually began to fall in love with him:

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, transplanted in New York. Originally from Winnipeg, she dreams of the snow-covered prairie landscape.

Recent solo shows include Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery in New York, vertexList in Brooklyn, TPW (presented at The Drake Hotel) and YYZ in Toronto, Video Pool in Winnipeg, and Edge Media in Newfoundland. Her work was also shown recently at The Whitney Museum's Artport, Sixty Seven Gallery in New York, Year Zero One in Toronto, Manifestation d'Art Internationale de Québec, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina, BananaRAM in Italy, The Sundance Online Film Festival in Utah, The Cleveland International Performance Art Festival, La Biennale de Montréal, ISEA 2004 in Estonia, and the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in France.

Mcdonald received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence, The Gunk Foundation, NYSCA, The Experimental Television Center, Thirdplace.org, and Pace University. She lectures regularly in North America and Europe about her work and has attended numerous residencies including DAIMON, Sagamie, and La Chambre Blanche in Québec; CFAT in Halifax; Em-Media in Calgary, and Harvestworks in New York. She teaches art at Pace University.

McDonald is wrapping up a residency at The Western Front:

“Horror Cycle” concentrates on the manufacturing of fear as entertainment that the horror film genre accomplishes. Unlike contemporary horror films, this work offers no extreme violence, little gore, no character development, and zero plot. These are stripped away in order to highlight the protagonists and their dilemmas.